28 The Lord will smite you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart; 29 and you will [a](A)grope at noon, as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways; but you shall only be oppressed and robbed continually, with none to save you.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:29 Lit be groping

10 For the Lord has poured over you a spirit of deep (A)sleep,
He has (B)shut your eyes, the prophets;
And He has covered your heads, the seers.

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10 His (A)watchmen are (B)blind,
All of them know nothing.
All of them are mute dogs unable to bark,
[a]Dreamers lying down, who love to slumber;

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 56:10 So DSS; M.T. Ravers

A Confession of Wickedness

Therefore (A)justice is far from us,
And righteousness does not overtake us;
We (B)hope for light, but behold, darkness,
For brightness, but we walk in gloom.
10 We (C)grope along the wall like blind men,
We grope like those who have no eyes;
We (D)stumble at midday as in the twilight,
Among those who are vigorous we are (E)like dead men.

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